Re: Laptop COMPATABILITY List.

The "smart" trackpad only functions as a regular "dumb" trackpad. The "pinch to zoom out" and "spread fingers to zoom in" (sort of like Apple's touch interfaces) features don't work. It appears these features are only supported with the Windows-only drivers for the trackpad.

Aside from that I have not seen any problems. Wireless and wired NICs, display, sound, etc. all worked out-of-the-box. Haven't tested special "function" keys (e.g. volume control buttons) extensively yet.

eta:
Ubuntu estimated ~3 hr. battery life. About the same as in Windows. Hibernate and Sleep functions also work.

Mult-boot can be complicated. The included Samsung backup software for Windows 7 appears to rely on a naive, legacy GRUB-like partition numbering scheme to identify its recovery partition. So if you want to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and still use the Samsung backup software, use Gparted to shrink the Windows volume, then put your Ubuntu install *after* the recovery partition.

Last edited by Objekt; July 26th, 2011 at 05:42 PM.
Reason: Battery info

Re: Laptop COMPATABILITY List.

Version: 11.04 Natty Narhwal 64-bit
Laptop: Dell Studio 1555
even the wireless drivers got automatically installed on the first wired connection to the internet. Still have no clue how to make a projector display from the laptop. special keys which along with fn keys work. Brightness, sound, play/pause, next/previous track, wireless/bluetooth switch, cd/dvd eject work. Only the projector key doesnt work. Fan control is amazing, i can see the fan revving up when i start off a load on the system.

Re: Laptop COMPATABILITY List.

if there are already 4 partitions, you can't make any new partition where you can install ubuntu as the system restricts the no. of partitions in an hard disk to 4. So, best bet, install it in windows only using wubi. Do try to mess with the partitions with Gparted utility if u dont know what u r doing. It can leave some parts of ur hard disk corrupted. So, wubi is the way to go for you!